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Italy at War and the Allies in the WestItaly at War and the Allies in the WestWhen the Prince was on the Italian front, he asked permission to visit a trench which was being heavily shelled. The King bluntly refused. "I want no historic incidents here," he remarked dryly. His Excellency Count...
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Opuscula Selecta NeerlandicorumOpuscula Selecta Neerlandicorum - Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde De spelling en de hoofdletters zijn gehandhaafd als in het origineel. Een aantal typografische fouten is gecorrigeerd. Ze zijn met popups aangegeven. Van de Griekse woorden is de transliteratie op dezelfde wijze aangegeven: . Spelling and...
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Eco da Voz Portugueza por Terras de Santa CruzEco da Voz Portugueza por Terras de Santa CruzEstrangulado entre as garras do Leopardo. dilacerado pelos dentes do Leo. e por escarneo picado com os espores do gallo, que sobre o teu cadaver canta os hymnos mortuarios que a finada Polonia ouvira quando posta...
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Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 - Italy, Sicily, and Greece, Part TwoThe great majority of the streets are as narrow as any thoroughfare can well be, where people (even Italian people) are supposed to live and walk about; being mere lanes, with...
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Alleen op de WereldAlleen op de WereldZelden, misschien nooit, las ik een boek, dat zoo rein en eenvoudig en toch zoo boeiend en vol afwisseling is, als dit meesterstuk van Hector Malot, door den schrijver aan zijne dochter Lucie opgedragen en zoo terecht met den Montyon-prijs bekroond....
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Papers of the Peabody museum of American archaeology and ethnology, vol. IV, no. 3Animal Figures in the Maya CodicesThe various peoples inhabiting Mexico and Central America in early pre-Columbian times were accustomed to record various events, especially in regard to their calendar and the religious ceremonials in relation to it, on long strips of skin or bark....
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Takáts Sándor Szalai Barkóczy Krisztina 1671-1724 czímű könyvének ismertetéseTakáts Sándor Szalai Barkóczy Krisztina 1671-1724 czímű könyvének ismertetéseEz a knyv j kppel gyaraptja trtnetnk arczkpcsarnokt. Szalai Barkczy Krisztina neve csak mellkesen volt eddig emltve trtnetnkben, most koporsjbl kikl s el kell ismernnk, hogy nevt egytt kell emltennk Zrnyi Ilonval, Lrntffy Zsuzsannval s Teleki...
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Germany and the Germans from an American Point of ViewGermany and the Germans from an American Point of View The first printed suggestion that America should be called America came from a German. Martin Waldseemller, of Freiburg, in his Cosmographiae Introductio, published in 1507, wrote: I do not see why any one may...
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Irish Plays and PlaywrightsIrish Plays and PlaywrightsThere are so many who have helped me with this book that I cannot begin to thank them one by one. If I name any, however, there are four I would name together. There is my old friend, long since dead,...
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La battaglia di Benevento: Storia del secolo XIIILa battaglia di Benevento: Storia del secolo XIIINon avrei tanto tardato a dar luogo nella Biblioteca nazionale a questa opera di F.-D. Guerrazzi, s'egli avesse avuto prima d'oggi facolt di cedermene il diritto. L'indugio per fu largamente compensato dalle cure poste ora dall'Autore intorno...
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Mémoires de Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, Ministre de la Police GénéraleMémoires de Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, Ministre de la Police Générale - Tome IIJamais peut-tre aucun ouvrage sur les vnemens comtemporains n'a t attendu et dsir aussi impatiemment que cette seconde partie des Mmoires posthumes de l'ex-ministre Fouch, duc d'Otrante. Au moment o parut...
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The Customs of Old EnglandThe Customs of Old EnglandThe aim of the present volume is to deal with Old English Customs, not so much in their picturesque aspectthough that element is not wholly wantingas in their fundamental relations to the organized life of the Middle Ages. Partly for...
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The Vicomte de Bragelonne; Or, Ten Years LaterThe Vicomte de Bragelonne; Or, Ten Years Later - Being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" and "Twenty Years After"Saint-Aignan stopped at the foot of the staircase which led to the entresol, where the maids of honor were lodged, and to the first floor,...
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History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest WarHistory of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest WarMy father's part in WWI attracted me to this book. I recall him talking briefly about fighting the Bolsheviki in Archangel. "The machine gun bullets trimmed the leaves off the trees, as...
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Manuel da Maya e os engenheiros militares portugueses no Terramoto de 1755Manuel da Maya e os engenheiros militares portugueses no Terramoto de 1755Interessante no estudo relativo ao seculo XIII ver, embora summariamente, o papel que tiveram os nossos engenheiros militares na restaurao da cidade de Lisboa, aps o terremoto de 1755, sobretudo o engenheiro-mor Manuel...
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Primeira origem da artePrimeira origem da arte - de imprimir dada à luz pelo primeiros characteresCom a generosa proteca de Vossa Magestade na s renascem em Portugal as Letras, mas agora pode dizerse [~q] nascem; pois sem as [~q] eu venho a introduzir nos dilatados dominios de...
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Day Symbols of the Maya YearDay Symbols of the Maya Year - Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling have been maintained, along with two typographical errors. They...
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Into the Jaws of DeathInto the Jaws of Death Having been asked by the Author of this Book, No. 73,194 Private Jack O'Brien of the 28th Northwest Battalion, to write a few words as an introduction to the story which he is placing before the public, it gives...
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A Journal From Our Legation in BelgiumA Journal From Our Legation in BelgiumThis volume is not a carefully prepared treatise on the war. It does not set out to prove anything. It is merely what its title indicatesa private journal jotted down hastily from day to day in odd moments,...
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Mémoires de Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, Ministre de la Police GénéraleMémoires de Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, Ministre de la Police Générale - Tome IOn verra, par la lecture de l'avertissement de l'auteur, que je pourrais tirer quelque vanit de ce que ses intentions ont t remplies relativement la publication de ses Mmoires. Le choix...
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